Tamarack Peak

We skied hour glass bowl on Tamarack Peak this afternoon. On the more north facing side of the bowl we encountered a small wind slab of 3-4 inches thick. The only failure we could get on it was by first undercutting the slab then kicking at it from above. The greatest extent of these failures is pictured above, but ~3 feet max. This wind layer only extended 10 feet down the slope. We then ski cut the slope with no results. On the NE facing middle part of the hour glass bowl, we did not observe this same layer and similar kicking did not yield any results. We kicked at some of the smaller cornices (1-2 feet) which failed fairly easily, but kicking below these slopes did not yield any slope failure or cracking.